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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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2 February 2006 - 10:29 pm
I'm going for a trifecta here.
Today was a really great day at work. It was a seemingly perfect day: no boring meetings, a small but engaging task to work on, an no unnecessary distractions. This combination is pretty rare these days and today was the first time in many a week when I felt like I could have stayed there working all night and been perfectly content.
But I had evening plans. Ben wanted to see the Vertigo dance floor at the Contemporary Art Museum's Happy Hour. michael didn't have any plans for the evening and Rachel was off doing something else, so michael tagged along with me, Jeremy, and Ben and we checked that scene out. The contemporary art wasn't all that impressive. There was an interactive display in one of the galleries that consisted of (and I'm not making this up) some wooden crates with Busch beer spilling out of one, a tunnel built out of popsicle sticks, a crappy picture of Jackie O. spanning a bunch of letter-sized sheets of paper, a mound of dirt labeled the "Grassy Knoll: National Historic Site," a JFK commemorative LP, a tent, and a bunch of Little Debbie Zebra cakes scattered around the tent. It was utter crap. Jeremy accidentally stepped on part of the exhibit and we got interrogated by one of the docents for that. I tried to look inside the tent but was told I couldn't because the area I was standing in was art (the quote from the docent was "this is art" as she gestured to the tent and Zebra cakes).
The Contemp was super-crowded, especially in the area around the dance floor where you were allowed to drink the $1 beer. I saw quite a few people I recognized from WashU there, probably supporting the Vertigo dance floor. Speaking of seeing people, it turns out that the "off doing something else" thing that I mentioned Rachel was doing? It turns out that she and her crowd were also at the Contemporary. Great minds think alike, I guess.
We did the Happy Hour scene for about an hour. That was long enough to drink a beer and look at the exhibits. Then we went off for dinner. Jeremy wanted to try Sameem on South Grand (reviews: 1, 2). Sameem's is an Afghan restaurant and it was ridiculously good. The Afghan food is similar to Indian, but it doesn't come in heavy sauces. It's kind of like Indian grill, I guess. Anyway, I had the mixed grill kabobs. This were three different meat kabobs (lamb, chicken, and ground beef) served on a bed of basmati rice. It was excellent. Sameem is definitely worth a visit. I loved it.
So that was my night.
Posted by on 2 February 2006 at 10:29 PM
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